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- A young Danish werewolf for Gaumont, the return of John Boorman for Le Pacte, the next Ozon for Films Distribution: a tidal wave of announcements in Santa Monica
As expected, many French international sales companies at work at the American Film Market (read the article) took advantage of the opening of the market yesterday to unveil new titles making their way to their line-up. Quick overview on the first announcements.
Gaumont, which is notably screening the world-premiere of Mea Culpa [+see also:
film profile] by Fred Cavayé, is beginning the sales of When Animals Dream by Danish director Jonas Arnby (an Alphaville production with Backup Films), whose filming will end soon. Flirting with horror, the feature, which is set in a small fishing village, focuses on a teenager falling in love who discovers she is a werewolf. It is worth noting that Cécile Gaget's team also welcomes on its line-up Samba by duo Eric Toledano - Olivier Nakache (article – filming with Omar Sy, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Tahar Rahim) and Diplomatie byGerman director Volker Schlöndorff (article - in post-production), whilst pursuing work on several other titles such as La French by Cédric Jimenez (with Jean Dujardin in the lead), Gemma Bovery by Anne Fontaine (with Gemma Arterton and Fabrice Luchini) and the 3D animated film Ballerina.
Le Pacte's line-up welcomes Queen & Country by British veteran director John Boorman (Deliverance, Excalibur, The Emerald Forest, Hope and Glory, etc). Produced by Kieran Corrigan & Co, the feature whose filming had begun in the Shepperton studios and is currently taking place for six weeks in Romania, is played by Caleb Landry-Jones, Tamsin Eggerton and Vanessa Kirby. The story focuses on an 18-year-old young man drafted for two years of service with the Korean War as a backdrop. Amongst the new films in Le Pacte's line-up, it is also worth noting Life of Riley (read the news) by Alain Resnais, The Kindergarden Teacher by Israeli director Nadav Lapid (coproduced by French outfit Haut and Court), Wild Life (article) by Cédric Kahn and Metamorphoses by Christophe Honoré (article).
Amongst other announcements, we can mention Taken 3 for EuropaCorp, Insecure by Marianne Tardieu (starring Reda Kateb and Adèle Exarchopoulos) for Urban Distribution International, the "slasher" Cub by Belgian filmmaker Jonas Govaert for Kinology and Divorce à la française by Dorothée Sebbagh (article – with Italian actor Kim Rossi Stuart and Géraldine Nakache) for TF1 International (which will pursue negotiations notably for Suite française [+see also:
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film profile] by Saul Dibb and its cast including Michelle Williams, Kristin Scott Thomas and Matthias Schoenaerts). As for StudioCanal, it will focus in particular on the pre-sales of the project Macbeth by Justin Kurzel (with Marion Cotillard in the lead) and the film (shooting) by Stephen Frears dedicated to the famous ex-cyclist (and doping) champion Lance Armstrong.
Finally, (source: Le Film Français) Films Distribution has begun the pre-sales of the next film by François Ozon, Une nouvelle amie, based on the novel by Ruth Rendell currently filming with Romain Duris, Anaïs Demoustier and Raphaël Personnaz in the cast.
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Having a wine tasting party, or just feel like having some wine? You might not be sure what foods go with the wine you like and vice versa. People have no problem cracking their favorite beer and drinking it with whatever snacks are around. But for some reason we get intimated when choosing a wine with our meal, or we feel guilty drinking wine with something we might not feel is suitable.
It may surprise you that wine goes great with lots of things. OK, let's rephrase that. It "pairs well" with many food items. We are talking about wine, after all. If you like wine, and you like snacks, healthy or otherwise, try these pairings at your next party or solo adventure.
Can't talk about wine without talking about cheese. They are the peanut butter and jelly of the highest cuisine. Pretty much any cheese goes with any wine, but there are some exceptions. A general rule is that drier whiter cheeses will go with drier white wines, such as chardonnay. Darker cheeses such as blue and gorgonzola will go with the fuller bodied reds like cabernet sauvignon. The oils in the cheese cut the acidity of the wine and make for a fuller flavor of both. Offer many different types of cheese on a platter. Some of the more popular cheeses with wine are blue, brie, cheddar, asiago, and gouda.
Passing around a platter of shrimp? Serve a bottle of prosecco to go with it. This is a dry, sparkling white wine. Chill it before serving. Prosecco is crisp and light and will accentuate the flavor of the sea. Prosecco will pair well with other seafood snacks, such as crab Rangoons or seafood dip.
Olives and wine are great go-togethers. In fact, olives are often grown in vineyards along with grapes. As with cheese, there are many different varieties and pairing them can be tricky. Generally stronger tasting olives, such as Greek Kalamata's pair well with richer red wines such as zinfandels and merlots. Castelvetrano olives from Italy, which are a beautiful bright green color, pair well with lighter white wines such as Sauvignon Blanc or Pinot Gris.
Dark Chocolate
Everyone loves chocolate. It's the most common thing and the most difficult thing to give up when dieting or sacrificing for religious reasons. But did you know that dark chocolate, as well as being delicious, also offers nutritional value? Dark chocolate is rich in antioxidants and has healthy minerals your body can use you while you are enjoying your treat.
Dark chocolate also goes great with wine. Break it into little pieces by itself or added to a bowl of almonds, Brazil nuts or cashews. Pair it with robust red wines such as cabernet sauvignon or pinot noir, or chose your favorite red wine blend, such as Ménage à Trois. The bitterness of the dark chocolate is counterbalanced by the tannins in the red wine. Your mouth will be bursting with fruit flavor.
Any dried fruit or fresh fruit can complement a glass of wine. Figs, mangoes, grapes, chunks of fresh pineapple, strawberries and other assorted berries can be paired successfully with wine. Choose a sweeter champagne or sparkling white wine to go with most fruits. If you want to counter the sweetness, there are red wines that pair well. Beaujolais, Bordeaux, and Chiantis are lighter red wines which bring out the fruit flavors and temper the sweetness of the fruit.
Bacon Wrapped Jalapeno Poppers
These spicy, rich snacks contain a number of ingredients that might prove challenging to pair with wine. You can experiment for yourself, but a hearty cabernet sauvignon would go best with this. Cabs bring out the flavor of the meat and tone down the intensity of the pepper. The hot cream cheese wills be extra tasty on a wine soaked palate.
Fresh Baked Bread
How many old French paintings have we seen with a man, a bottle, and a loaf of bread?! Fresh baked crusty Italian or French bread broken off in pieces and buttered go great with any dry wine, white or red. Avoid sweet or bubbly wines as they will over power the aromas and flavors of the bread. If you want to avoid butter, dunk your bread in seasoned olive oil. Bread can be broken into pieces or sliced and served on a large tray alongside your cheeses and olives.
Wine pairing doesn't have to be intimidating or unenjoyable. Keep in mind you might like a pairing another might not. There are basic guidelines for wine and food pairing. Your goal is to match flavors and intensities of both wine and food. Rich foods tend to pair better with reds, light foods with whites. But there are always exceptions. Also, you also have to factor in your own personal tastes. Snack, taste, and be merry! Enjoy you party or enjoy your snack.
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UB-3 was similar in appearance to her sister boat SM UB-4, pictured here in 1915.
|German Empire
|15 November 1914[1]
|Germaniawerft, Kiel[2]
|Yard number:
|Laid down:
|3 November 1914[1]
|5 March 1915[1]
|14 March 1915[1]
|disappeared after 23 May 1915[1]
|General characteristics [3]
|Class and type:
|Type UB I submarine
|127 t (125 long tons) surfaced142 t (140 long tons) submerged
|28.10 m (92 ft 2 in) (o/a)
|10 ft 6 in (3.20 m)
|9 ft 10 in (3.00 m)
|1 × propeller shaft1 × Daimler 4-cylinder diesel engine, 59 bhp (44 kW)1 × Siemens-Schuckert electric motor, 119 shp (89 kW)
|6.47 knots (11.98 km/h; 7.45 mph) surfaced5.51 knots (10.20 km/h; 6.34 mph) submerged
|1,650 nmi (3,060 km; 1,900 mi) at 5 knots (9.3 km/h; 5.8 mph) surfaced45 nmi (83 km; 52 mi) at 4 knots (7.4 km/h; 4.6 mph)
|Test depth:
|50 metres (160 ft)
|2 × 45 cm (17.7 in) bow torpedo tubes2 × torpedoes1 × 8 mm (0.31 in) machine gun
|33-second diving time
|Service record
|Part of:
|Pola Flotilla1 May 1915 – 23 May 1915
|Oblt.z.S. Siegfried Schmidt[4]24 March – 23 May 1915
|1 patrol
SM UB-3 was a German Type UB I submarine or U-boat in the German Imperial Navy (German: Kaiserliche Marine) during World War I. She disappeared on her first patrol in May 1915, and was the first of her class to be lost.[5]
UB-3 was ordered in October 1914 and was laid down at the Germaniawerft shipyard in Kiel in November. UB-3 was a little more than 28 metres (92 ft) in length and displaced between 127 and 142 metric tons (125 and 140 long tons), depending on whether surfaced or submerged. She carried two torpedoes for her two bow torpedo tubes and was also armed with a deck-mounted machine gun. She was launched and commissioned as SM UB-3 in March 1915.[Note 1]
UB-3 was broken into sections and shipped by rail to the Austro-Hungarian port of Pola in April for reassembly. She officially joined the Pola Flotilla on 1 May and departed on her first patrol for temporary duty in Turkey on 23 May, and was never seen again. A postwar German study concluded that UB-3 was likely the victim of an unexplained technical problem in the absence of any minefields or enemy action.
Design and construction[edit]
After the German Army's rapid advance along the North Sea coast in the earliest stages of World War I, the German Imperial Navy found itself without suitable submarines that could be operated in the narrow and shallow environment off Flanders.[6][7] Project 34, a design effort begun in mid-August 1914,[7] produced the Type UB I design: a small submarine that could be shipped by rail to a port of operations and quickly assembled. Constrained by railroad size limitations, the UB I design called for a boat about 28 metres (92 ft) long and displacing about 125 metric tons (123 long tons) with two torpedo tubes.[6][Note 2] UB-3 was part of the initial allotment of eight submarines—numbered UB-1 to UB-8—ordered on 15 October from Germaniawerft of Kiel, just shy of two months after planning for the class began.[6][8]
UB-3 was laid down by Germaniawerft on 3 November and was launched on 5 March 1915.[1] As built, UB-3 was 92 feet 2 inches (28.09 m) long, 3.15 metres (10 ft 4 in) abeam, and had a draft of 3.03 metres (9 ft 11 in). She had a single 59-brake-horsepower (44 kW) Daimler 4-cylinder diesel engine for surface travel, and a single 119-shaft-horsepower (89 kW) Siemens-Schuckert electric motor for underwater travel, both attached to a single propeller shaft. Her top speeds were 6.47 knots (11.98 km/h; 7.45 mph), surfaced, and 5.51 knots (10.20 km/h; 6.34 mph), submerged.[2] At more moderate speeds, she could sail up to 1,650 nautical miles (3,060 km; 1,900 mi) on the surface before refueling, and up to 45 nautical miles (83 km; 52 mi) submerged before recharging her batteries. Like all boats of the class, UB-3 was rated to a diving depth of 50 metres (160 ft), and could completely submerge in 33 seconds.
UB-3 was armed with two 45-centimeter (17.7 in) torpedoes in two bow torpedo tubes. She was also outfitted for a single 8-millimeter (0.31 in) machine gun on deck. UB-3's complement consisted of one officer and thirteen enlisted men.[9]
Service career[edit]
The submarine was commissioned into the German Imperial Navy as SM UB-3 on 14 March under the command of Oberleutnant zur See Siegfried Schmidt,[1] a 27-year-old, first-time U-boat skipper,[4][Note 3] and underwent trials in German home waters.[9]
As one of the UB I boats selected for Mediterranean duty, UB-3 was readied for rail shipment.[1] The process of shipping a UB I boat involved breaking the submarine down into what was essentially a knock down kit. Each boat was broken into approximately fifteen pieces and loaded onto eight railway flatcars.[9] UB-3 was shipped to the port of Pola,[10] site of ally Austria–Hungary's main naval base,[11] on 15 April. After UB-3's parts arrived at Pola, it took about two weeks to assemble them.[10] UB-3 joined the Pola Flotilla (German: Deutsche U-Halbflotille Pola) on 1 May.[1]
By late May, UB-3 had made her way down the Adriatic to the Austro–Hungarian port of Cattaro,[10] the base from which most boats of the Pola Flotilla actually operated.[11][Note 4] For her first patrol,[1] UB-3 was loaded with ammunition for Turkish forces at İzmir, Turkey.[10][12] Because of her limited range, UB-3 was towed by the light cruiser SMS Novara of the Austro-Hungarian Navy[13] through the Straits of Otranto and cast off near the island of Kérkira. UB-3's planned route was south of the Ionian Islands, around the Peloponnese, through the Cyclades, north around Khios and Karaburun, and into the Gulf of İzmir. If all went well, UB-3 would have arrived at İzmir on 28 or 29 May with about half her fuel left. The Germans received a garbled radio message from UB-3 when she was about 80 nautical miles (150 km; 92 mi) from İzmir, but were unable to completely understand it. No trace of UB-3 has ever been found.[10] UB-3 was the first of the UB I boats to be lost during the war.[5]
A postwar German study concluded that UB-3's loss was probably the result of some unexplained technical problem, because there were no minefields along UB-3's route and no record of any attacks against U-boats in the area.[10] British records, and some sources based on them,[14] give the particulars of UB-3's demise as being in the North Sea on 24 April 1916, which authors R. H. Gibson and Maurice Prendergast assert was actually the fate of UB-13. They also point out that UB-3 had gone missing nearly a year before UB-3's supposed sinking in the North Sea.[15]
- ^ "SM" stands for "Seiner Majestät" (English: His Majesty's) and combined with the U for Unterseeboot would be translated as His Majesty's Submarine.
- ^ A further refinement of the design—replacing the torpedo tubes with mine chutes but changing little else—evolved into the Type UC I coastal minelaying submarine. See: Miller, p. 458.
- ^ Schmidt was in the Navy's April 1906 cadet class with 34 other future U-boat captains, including Wilhelm Marschall, Matthias Graf von Schmettow, Max Viebeg, and Erwin Waßner. See: Helgason, Guðmundur. "WWI Officer Crews: Crew 4/06". German and Austrian U-boats of World War I - Kaiserliche Marine - Uboat.net. Retrieved 4 March 2009.
- ^ Although the flotilla was based in Pola, boats of the flotilla operated out of Cattaro which was located farther south and closer to the Mediterranean. German U-boats typically returned to Pola only for repairs. See: Halpern, p. 384.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Helgason, Guðmundur. "WWI U-boats: UB 3". German and Austrian U-boats of World War I - Kaiserliche Marine - Uboat.net. Retrieved 4 March 2009.
- ^ a b Tarrant, p. 172.
- ^ Gröner 1991, pp. 22-23.
- ^ a b Helgason, Guðmundur. "WWI U-boat commanders: Siegfried Schmidt". German and Austrian U-boats of World War I - Kaiserliche Marine - Uboat.net. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
- ^ a b Tarrant, p. 24. The first UB I boats entered service in March 1915. The list presented by Tarrant shows UB-3 was sunk three months before sister ship UB-4.
- ^ a b c Miller, pp. 46–47.
- ^ a b Karau, p. 48.
- ^ Williamson, p. 12.
- ^ a b c Karau, p. 49.
- ^ a b c d e f Messimer, pp. 126–27.
- ^ a b Halpern, p. 384.
- ^ Gibson and Prendergast, p. 71.
- ^ Bendert, Die UB-Boote der Kaiserlichen Marine, 1914-1918. Einsätze, Erfolge, Schicksal p. 30.
- ^ Dewar, Alfred C. (1922). "Munitions of War: Minesweeping and Minelaying". In Franklin Henry Hooper. Encyclopædia Britannica. XXXI (12th ed.). The Encyclopædia Britannica. p. 953. OCLC 15093864.
- ^ Gibson and Prendergast, p. 91.
- Bendert, Harald (2000). Die UB-Boote der Kaiserlichen Marine, 1914-1918. Einsätze, Erfolge, Schicksal (in German). Hamburg: Verlag E.S. Mittler & Sohn GmbH. ISBN 3-8132-0713-7.
- Gröner, Erich; Jung, Dieter; Maass, Martin (1991). U-boats and Mine Warfare Vessels. German Warships 1815–1945. 2. Translated by Thomas, Keith; Magowan, Rachel. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-593-4.
- Gardiner, Robert, ed. (1985). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships, 1906–1921. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-0-87021-907-8. OCLC 12119866.
- Gibson, R. H.; Maurice Prendergast (2003) [1931]. The German Submarine War, 1914–1918. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 9781591143147. OCLC 52924732.
- Halpern, Paul G. (1994). A Naval History of World War I. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-0-87021-266-6. OCLC 28411665.
- Karau, Mark D. (2003). Wielding the Dagger: the MarineKorps Flandern and the German War Effort, 1914–1918. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger. ISBN 978-0-313-32475-8. OCLC 51204317.
- Messimer, Dwight R. (2002). Verschollen: World War I U-boat losses. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-1-55750-475-3. OCLC 231973419.
- Miller, David (2002). The Illustrated Directory of Submarines of the World. St. Paul, Minnesota: MBI Pub. Co. ISBN 978-0-7603-1345-9. OCLC 50208951.
- Miller, David (2002). The Illustrated Directory of Submarines of the World. St. Paul, Minnesota: MBI Pub. Co. ISBN 978-0-7603-1345-9. OCLC 50208951.
- Tarrant, V. E. (1989). The U-Boat Offensive: 1914–1945. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-0-87021-764-7. OCLC 20338385.
- Williamson, Gordon (2002). U-boats of the Kaiser's Navy. Oxford: Osprey. ISBN 978-1-84176-362-0. OCLC 48627495.


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<!--Create a Button with a string as its content.--> <Button>This is string content of a Button</Button> <!--Create a Button with a DateTime object as its content.--> <Button xmlns:sys="clr-namespace:System;assembly=mscorlib"> <sys:DateTime>2004/3/4 13:6:55</sys:DateTime> </Button> <!--Create a Button with a single UIElement as its content.--> <Button> <Rectangle Height="40" Width="40" Fill="Blue"/> </Button> <!--Create a Button with a panel that contains multiple objects as its content.--> <Button> <StackPanel> <Ellipse Height="40" Width="40" Fill="Blue"/> <TextBlock TextAlignment="Center">Button</TextBlock> </StackPanel> </Button>
// Create a Button with a string as its content. Button stringContent = new Button(); stringContent.Content = "This is string content of a Button"; // Create a Button with a DateTime object as its content. Button objectContent = new Button(); DateTime dateTime1 = new DateTime(2004, 3, 4, 13, 6, 55); objectContent.Content = dateTime1; // Create a Button with a single UIElement as its content. Button uiElementContent = new Button(); Rectangle rect1 = new Rectangle(); rect1.Width = 40; rect1.Height = 40; rect1.Fill = Brushes.Blue; uiElementContent.Content = rect1; // Create a Button with a panel that contains multiple objects // as its content. Button panelContent = new Button(); StackPanel stackPanel1 = new StackPanel(); Ellipse ellipse1 = new Ellipse(); TextBlock textBlock1 = new TextBlock(); ellipse1.Width = 40; ellipse1.Height = 40; ellipse1.Fill = Brushes.Blue; textBlock1.TextAlignment = TextAlignment.Center; textBlock1.Text = "Button"; stackPanel1.Children.Add(ellipse1); stackPanel1.Children.Add(textBlock1); panelContent.Content = stackPanel1;
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This year we celebrated Christmas early with my family - two weeks ago in fact - because they were off to the States to spend Christmas there. I blogged about it and you can read all about our early Christmas celebrations here.
So, having swapped gifts already with them, I wasn't expecting to find too much under my tree this year. I must admit, I even purchased myself the odd thing (or two!) and wrapped it up and put it under the tree myself - from 'Santa' obviously. Personally speaking, I told myself it was just in case my son thought Santa had forgotten Mummy. Realistically it was just an excuse to treat myself to a couple of things!
However this year my friends have blown me away. I couldn't have received more thoughtful and lovely gifts from those who are stuck with me for life..because when I make a friend, they can't get away from me. Ever...haha.
So, here's a little post about what Santa left under my tree this year...
So...thanks to my lovely blogger friend Jess, I'm now fully addicted to Lush products. She sent me my very first Lush product last month and since then I've been hooked. Even my little boy gets the odd treat in the form of a bath bomb from there now. So finding this glittery and sparkly 'Star Dust' gift set under the tree was fantastic! I can't wait to have a pamper day and start using some of these smellies. As well as the gift set, another of my friends also indulged my Lush loving and got me the Magic Wand reusable Bubble Bar, which has already been used once and given me pure joy at being in pink bath water!
Having been wafted in the face with my work colleague's perfume a few weeks ago, I instantly fell in love. She told me it was Tom Ford and after testing every single variation in John Lewis, I picked out this amazing smelling Grey Vetiver eau de toilette as being my favourite. I couldn't really stretch to new perfume - why is perfume the one thing we don't often buy for ourselves?! So finding this bad boy under my tree was a lovely surprise. Plus my lovely friends had bought my son and I matching initial Christmas decorations which perfectly co-ordinated with the rest of my baubles and decorations. I love these, they're seriously cute and they look great on the tree.
One of the treats that Santa left herself this year was this amazing limited edition Nars cheek palette. I read a blogger review on this and then watched a few YouTube videos on it to see if the colours were what I was looking for - and after about a nano-second I gave in and made the impulse purchase. I can't wait to start using this, and of course, to blog about it too.
There is a tradition between my Mum and I at Christmas. It involves buying each other something from Molton Brown. The funny thing is that most years we end up buying each other the same thing without knowing! So it wouldn't have been Christmas without Molton Brown and this years treat was brand new to the shelves. A gorgeous sparkly champagne colour bath and shower gel with a hint of shimmer in it. It's infused with elderflower and smells absolutely divine. I can not wait to indulge in a bath with this, some candles and a glass of bubbles. HEAVEN.
What's in the Michael Kors box, I hear you ask? Well my amazing friends spoilt me and also made me cry when they gave me this...
Knowing me so well, they know I'm the biggest Michael Kors fan and they also know that I've developed a love of anything Rose gold recently. Plus knowing I'm the most girly girl that you're going to meet, this beautiful ring has blown me away. It perfectly matches the jewellery I'm wearing a lot at the moment and I can't believe they went all the way to London for it too. Girls - I love you!
As well as knowing my jewellery tastes, they known my actual tastes...GIN! And what Gin lover wouldn't appreciate Gin flavoured lip balm and a Gin flavoured lolly?! This one certainly does!
The biggest treat this year came directly from Fraser Hart who made my Christmas wish come true with the most amazing Michael Kors watch. White and Rose Gold, with plenty of girly sparkle - it's my perfect dream watch. Landing under my tree just in time for the big day, this is being treated like my new baby - with lots of love and adoration. Thank you Fraser Hart - you made my day!
I did treat myself to one other pressie this year - you know, to help Santa out, because I have it on good authority that he's not good at navigating around the MAC stores. Having fallen head over heels with the brand new and limited edition Ellie Goulding collaboration, I treated myself to a few of the items from the range. AND the limited edition Mariah Carey lipstick (also by MAC) that I had to order from the States, arrived on Christmas Eve too - so that was like a little extra pressie to me, from me!
As well as these, I was also fortunate to receive some amazing bits and pieces - too much to photograph! I got some amazing stationery, some smellies from Soap & Glory, some loungewear from the Rosie range at M&S, a handmade bracelet, a bunting for my lounge, a jewellery dish....so much that I feel well and truly spoilt this year!
If there's one saying that's true, it's that "Friends are the family we choose for ourselves" and mine certainly are.


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Information is a seriously contemplated topic in the realm of theoretical physics. It's absolutely everywhere. When I look out my window here at my desk, light hits my eyes telling me there is a sparrow perched on the bush outside (I know I am incredibly lucky to have a desk with a window). All the leaves, the trunks of the trees, the blue sky, the grassy field beyond, the inidividual blades of grass, information about all these things are simultaneously being transmitted to me via electromagnetic radiation - light. It would seem light is the loudest kind of information we have. There is light everywhere in our lives. The next loudest would be sound. So long as we are surrounded by enough matter, we will hear sound. My computer is humming away, the air-conditioner is churning and every now and then, I hear a truck drive by. This is further information. Sound travels through the medium of matter. Massive objects have the ability to propagate sound. Light travels through the medium of the electromagnetic field. The electromagnetic field spans all space and tells charged particles how to behave. Changes in the electric field occur through this radiation. If a particle moves, a little signal is sent through the electromagnetic field as a light wave. Thus I see the leaves waving in the wind.
There are other more difficult kinds of information to notice. Radio waves and infrared signals are both electromagnetic radiation - just a different wavelength than light. There's many more classifications among those. Over the last century, we've gotten pretty goo at detecting them. We've even found this Cosmic Microwave Background radiation that seems to be telling us that the universe was once expanding in this incredibly hot fireball that grew at an amazing rate. There is, however, a kind of signal that is very hard to hear. It's almost the secret code that permeates the universe. We've actually not heard it before, but we have very good reason to believe it exists.
A lot of people have heard of Einstein. You might have heard of energy being mass times the speed of light squared? Well, that's a simplification of what he said in Special Relativity. The really important thing he said in Special Relativity is that information cannot travel faster than the speed of light (approx. 300,000 km/s). This is one of those fundamental laws of physics that every first year student wants to show is wrong and yet we never find a situation that upon careful examination does not comply with. The problem is, Einstein saw something that apparently did not comply with it..
As I said before, information is carried by light. It takes light about eight minutes to get from the Sun to the Earth. That means, if the Sun were to suddenly cease to exist, we would still have light for about eight minutes. This doesn't sound like a problem with the speed of information barrier. What is a problem is when you examine gravity. Over a hundred years ago, the prevailing theory of gravity is the same one we still teach in highschool physics today - Newton's law of gravity. It goes something like, the force of gravity between two objects is proportional to the masses multiplied together divided by the square of the distance in between. Look at what I just said carefully and you'll notice that I never mention time in that statement. What that suggests is that if the sun magically ceased to exist, we would instantaneously go flying off into space. We would still see the Sun, but we would know we were doomed because we wouldn't be orbiting it anymore.
Enter Einstein's General Theory of Relativity. The theory says that gravity is curvature. If you imagine a sphere with two people starting on the equator, imagine them walking north. Initially they are walking on parallel lines but the curvature of the sphere brings those two paths, always walking north, together. If you imagine north as the direction of time, you could then imagine how curvature brings two objects together. The obvious question is, what is being curved? My less obvious answer is space and time itself. Gravity is the curvature of space and time determining the direction objects move. Further, objects and their movements determine the shape of space and time. The next question is why does this fix our little problem with information? The answer to that is when an object changes in some way, that change is registered in the curvature of space-time and a ripple that propagates out from the object at the speed of light. Now, if the Sun were to disappear, we'd be in the dark figuratively speaking until we were in the dark litterally. It would take about eight minutes before we'd start feeling the lack of gravity from the Sun.
Einstein came up with this theory in the early twentieth century and we still haven't detected gravitational waves. We have good reason to believe this theory, however. If this theory is true, then gravity should divert light, which it does. In fact, gravitational lensing hasbeen used to get more information using our best telescopes. Effectively, large galaxies in between us and what we want to see bend the light from what we're looking at and refocus it like a lense does. Further, GPS systems make use of a correction term determined from General Relativity. Without the term, we could not have GPS guided airplanes. So we definitely think this theory has merit - we just haven't detected gravitational waves yet...
...but we're close. You see, gravitational waves are what's called a weakly interacting signal. That's physics jargon for gravity being weak compared to other forces. While we all know the feel of being stuck to the ground, the only reason that force is so immense is that there is so much matter to the Earth. We don't feel the electric pull so much because the Earth is mostly neutral. However, if you have ever been near where a lightning blot hits, I'm sure you recognize the emmense power of electricity. All this means that gravitational waves are very hard to hear. It takes very massive objects moving very quickly to create gravitational waves of the sort to produce a signal we could measure effectively. Then it takes some very careful equipment.
An interferometer is a device that fires a laser down one path and down another at a right angle. The beams bounce off a mirror back down the same paths. The beams are recombined and small differences in the length of the paths can be measured by the interaction. Well, a gravitational wave sends a little ripple in space and time itself. This can stretch one arm of an interferometer while shrinking the other. Remember, however, I said gravity is weakly interacting. I can't just do this expiriment on a table top. To detect gravitational waves, we're working on a project called LIGO or Laser Interferometric Gravitational-Wave Observatory. There are two locations for this project, one in Livingston, LA and the other in Hanford, WA. Just google LIGO to see some pictures. These are interferometers that fire lasers down four kilometer long vacuum chambers and are looking to detect a change in distance a thousandth the size of a proton. Now, I'm on the theoretical side of things so I can't accurately give you all the details on what they're doing but needless to say this is one of the most sophisticated scientific observing expiriments ever created.
What we expect to hear is the really amazing part. Perhaps the most likely source of gravitational waves to be detected by LIGO will come from orbiting binary black holes around thirty times the mass of the Sun. Black holes are objects so massive that the gravity doesn't even let light escape. We have only seen hints of black holes - places in the centers of galaxies where there doesn't appear to be anything except that other stars are orbiting those locations and pulsars which seem incredibly consistant with the idea that a black hole is powering them. This would be the first direct evidence of a black hole - and it could imply two of them. Think about it. These massive objects that can change the way galaxies behave orbiting togetehr and emitting powerful gravitational waves that due to the weak interaction, we have to go to extremes to see. It is as if some of the most fantastic information to be gathered about some of the most massive objects in the universe is hidden in a code that requires extreme effort to find. That is why this is titled, Gravitational Waves or the Hidden Whispering of the Universe.


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Formally of Harrisburg, she is survived by her son, Michael Anderson and a grandson, Avante Anderson, also of Harrisburg, a sister, Peggy Marks and brother, Floyd (Pete) Fry both of Mechanicsburg, John Fry of Loysville, Warren and Jack Fry of Duncannon and Harold Fry of Newport. She was preceded in death by her parents, Dora Dailey and Ernest Fry, brothers, Lindenburg and Charles Fry.
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Today's ad is for Qwest Business. I didn't accidentally cut off the right side of the ad. This is how it ran.
First off, the ad is poorly designed. It looks like someone slapped it together during their coffee break:
I got an idea! I'll just outline my mousepad and fill it in with black! I'll show those people who say you need to learn design in order to be a graphic designer just how wrong they are!
To be fair, the graphic designer isn't always to blame. Sometimes the owner of the company or some other higher-up thinks he knows design better than the designer, and dictates what the designer should do. The graphic designer knows it's crap, but he needs to eat, so he does what he's told.
I not sure what this ad is trying to say. It says that you can receive integrated voice and data solutions, which will help you avoid distractions. They don't say how the integrated voice and data solutions help you avoid distractions. I assume they mean that they'll run smoothly, but I don't really know.
Why not just say what they mean?
Instead, they got clever and mixed the message up with the metaphor of the energy crisis. The reader sees conserve oil and save energy, and thinks Qwest is saying something about going green and saving energy.
Here we have the same old problem of advertisers who think like advertisers instead of like readers. Readers aren't paying attention. Readers don't want to read ads because ads are an annoyance. Consumers have trained themselves to tune out all forms of advertising. If advertisers want to catch a consumer's attention, they had better craft an ad that is so well-constructed that the reader won't simply glance at it and then turn the page.
At one time, I worked in sales for a legal publishing company. I called lawyers on the phone and sold them legal books and journals. The lawyers were busy. They didn't particularly want to talk to me.
I knew that I had a book that would help the lawyer on the phone do his job. I had to explain to him howthe book would help him do his job and why it was worth more than what it would cost. Quickly.
I didn't call the attorney and say:
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The whole idea of personal acts is subversive and terrifying in a society with no privateness, which leads Sal to an encounter with a girl identified only as The Lady (Amanda Seyfried), and it lets Niccol address how the infinite info-gathering and information-trading of establishments from Fb to the NSA would play out in a world the place someone may escape them fully. I just lately spoke with Niccol about Anon's familiar coldness, how his films strategy conformity and technology, and the way it all pertains to Black Mirror.
A pilot energy plant just outside Houston, within the heart of the US petroleum and refining trade, is testing a technology that would make clean energy from natural fuel a actuality. The corporate behind the 50-megawatt project, Web Power, believes it will possibly generate power at least as cheaply as normal natural-gas plants and seize basically all the carbon dioxide launched in the course of.
But mostly, Niccol writes and directs his own projects, which he tends to offer a chilly, oppressive feel. His characters are often inflexible and repressed, reflecting their worlds' appreciable anxieties and frustrations. His latest film, the Netflix launch Anon, is one other case in point. The film takes place in a dystopic future where everyone has embedded technology that records their point of view from infancy onward. They see the world via an augmented reality lens that provides ads to the buildings, playback mode for their own endlessly recorded reminiscences, and a constant stream of details about everyone around them. Clive Owen stars as Sal, a detective whose job is kind of like a file clerk's: when a criminal offense is committed, he shuffles by the folders of other individuals's memories until he sees who's guilty. But then corpses begin displaying up with their reminiscence feeds … Read More


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Inspiration. Inspiration is an extremely valuable commodity and I'm always looking for new sources. It's what fuels what most of us do with our photography, modeling and any art form where you can express yourself. I've got a couple items I want to share with you this morning and they both pertain to things that I hope you may find inspirational, at least to some … [Read more...]
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2015 was pretty cool, but I'm really looking forward to 2016. I know it's a little crazy to think that because the number on the calendar changes that anything is any different, but I think it's a nice tool to use to kind of rethink some things, reorganize, make new plans and other things that can help you move forward with fun and exciting projects and goals!I hope you all have an amazing … [Read more...]
Inspiration: Saul Leiter – Early Black and White (book)
A while back I did a post on someone who's become one of my favorite photographers, Saul Leiter. The post was on his early color work, which is amazing. (the work, not necessarily the post ;) )When I first started studying Saul's photography it was his color work that really stood out to me. That would probably surprise a lot of people because I've almost always preferred black and white … [Read more...]
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For much of my life I lived in city's that had cloud formations that were more smooth and misty. I guess because I was closer to coastlines. When I moved to Nevada I was really blown away by how cool the cloud formations could be here.Over the past couple of days I've been lucky to happen to look out the window at the right time. Two days ago I photographed this beautiful sunrise, and tonight I … [Read more...]
Saul Leiter – Early Color
Hey, look what came in the mail today! I've been looking forward to this!You might've noticed that I shoot predominantly black and white. I will do color for clients or there is the rare occasion that I actually prefer a color version of the image. That being said I've recently learned about photographer, Saul Leiter, and the work he did in color has really appealed to me.From Wikipedia: Saul … [Read more...]


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Despite the fact that GPS shipments are expected to have double-digit growth rates for at least the next 4 years, the world's biggest GPS semiconductor company SiRF continues to take a beating. In the first quarter of 2008, SiRF lost all kinds of money, closed a couple of offices and announced they'd be downsizing their workforce. Investors obviously weren't too happy and CEO at-the-time Michael Canning resigned. Things haven't changed too much for the company though; if anything they've gotten worse.
Last Thursday, SiRF announced a net loss of $332.6 million for the second quarter ending June 30, 2008. While revenues were down about 10% compared to 2007's second quarter, what's really astounding is the difference in gross margins from year to year. In the 2nd quarter of 2007, SiRF still had a fairly healthy 53.9% gross margin. This year it's dropped all the way to 21%. Unfortunately this means SiRF will have to downsize once again. Right now they're sitting at 710 employees and they're due to downsize another 7-9%. How much will that cost? Anywhere from $500, 000 to $1 million. Anyone think SiRF's 3rd quarter earnings will be any better?
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I have some stuff up in the Anthrocon Art show! If you are on site you should stop by and see it. This guy is products of the highlands. If you don't get the original but want a print or bookmark just contact me either by e-mail or through the site.
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Candace Cameron Bure, "The View" co-host, is grateful she lives in the United States of America.
"We all have a vote," she told FOX411. "I think that is why this country is so great because we all do have a voice here, and we have the chance for opportunity here. We have the ability to love God here. I don't ever want to see that taken away from us. We have freedom here that is what makes America so great and that we have people that are willing to fight for that freedom on a daily basis."
Bure feels lucky she was born in America.
"I am so proud to be an American. I got lucky. My parents were born here, and I was born here and that's really the luck of the draw, right? We can't say where we are going to be born. But at the same time, my husband is an immigrant. He is Russian, and he came here and became an American because it is such a wonderful country. There is no other country I would want to be a citizen of."
While the mom of three is busy splitting her time between filming "The View," "Fuller House" and raising a family, she won't miss celebrating the Fourth of July with her family.
"We usually barbeque at home," she said. "We have friends and family come over. Usually our house is the destination house for Fourth of July because we live at the beach and we are on a hill and we get a view of all the fireworks."
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Since it's not a secret that Mally really, REALLY likes dogs, I decided to draw her as a puppy for her birthday. And since it's not a secret that I really, REALLY like Mally, I ended up drawing six of them. :D Each puppy represents one of many styles of Mally. But, I'm sure there is some hair colour I missed. :D
The Wan Drums!*
And then I thought, how cute would such a puppy look at the drummer's seat? Can those short paws even reach anything? ^^
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I loved this pairing! I was looking for a sexy Neville story, and you just handed me the sexiest one ever! May I say that I absolutely adore you!
| Guest chapter 1 . 1/24/2014
I love how you write these two! I hope you write them again soon... I really need more Hannah/Neville fics in my life.
| QueenMinnie chapter 1 . 2/12/2012
Great story, loved it!
| EnglishGrlVerity chapter 1 . 9/4/2011
Awe, super cute ending! : )
| candygirl7114 chapter 1 . 3/10/2011
hot damn that was hot
good job :P
| iamwallflowerxx chapter 1 . 2/26/2011
Ahh she is having baby Neville.
| rb2312 chapter 1 . 8/4/2010
love your this story
especially the wist at the end
i wonder if you can help me.
I have an idea for a story senario onlong the same lines that i would like to sugest to the HP writers, but am not sure how to go about it.
senario involves Neville in the room of Requirements during the hogwarts resistance (while trio are off hunting)
given his new brave leader status, a lot of the DA girls go to him for how shall i say this... Comfort.
he ends up with Hanna as per JKR outline, but also susan Bones.
may have other parners also, but not Ginny
any how thought you may like to give this story to a good home if you know anyone who could use the senario
| ATigressAshore chapter 1 . 11/4/2009
Nice job with Hannah/ Neville sex; you're porn WAS nice and shiny!
| bellastrange51 chapter 1 . 9/5/2009
Wow! Neville went from "forgetting what he forgot" in his first year to "shutting the fuck up" in his sventh! love it!
| lovely rubber boots chapter 1 . 8/27/2009
GREAT STORY. Love it.
| blue-peridot chapter 1 . 7/29/2009
wow. fantastic job sexifying neville and hannah! that was a brilliant oneshot. and the pregnancy at the end... real sweet.
| zodiakat chapter 1 . 7/23/2009
MY my, is this the Neville that got hung by his robes in the second year?
| David Fishwick chapter 1 . 7/1/2009
Great and thanks for writing.


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i think it's because of the nature of #SingleInstance force, It cant close the previous script with the same name if it's in the different folder.
I try to do that with the below script i found but it's not working can anyone tell me what i'm doing wrong here.
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My lords and my ladies, be prepared to step back in time when you make the trip to Magnolia to see the Renaissance Festival.
The Texas Renaissance Festival is one of the countries largest Renaissance Fairs and is located 1 hour north of Houston. It runs on weekends for 8 weeks, this year the dates are 8 November through to the 27 November 9am to dusk.
Tickets are available to purchase at the gate for $25 for adults and $12 for children 5-12 (children 4 and under are free). We purchased our tickets online for a slight discount.
Once you walk in you are taken back to the 16th century with a myriad of ye olde style activities with a fair like atmosphere.
All staff are dressed in theme, and many patrons also arrive in costume – it is lots of fun!
There are a number of stages and arenas that have free performances on. We saw a fun version of Shakespeare, belly dancers and singers.
The festival has a number of themed weekends, the weekend we made it was the "Highland Fling". The main arena held Highland Games including Caber Toss, Stone Put and a Hammer Throw.
Once you were inside the grounds, most activities were free. Although there were a number of ye olde style rides an additional small cost.
Food, alcoholic and non alcoholic beverages are available for purchase at the festival.
There are only a couple of weekends left this year, I think it is a must go to event that is suitable for all ages.


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In 2018 The Man From Snowy River Bush Festival, in partnership with Under Sky and Kirkhope Aviation, are pleased to be able to offer a complete glamping package to get the most of your Festival experience.
The glamping package includes return flights, departing from Moorabbin Airport to Corryong Airport, a fully furnished luxe tent with concierge and a 4 day Adult VIP pass to the Festival. Included with every tent is a Welcome Hamper including goodies and vouchers to the value of $50.
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Scott Michael Foster (born March 4, 1985) is an American actor presently starring as "Cappie," a rowdy fraternity brother, on the ABC Family TV Series Greek.
Foster was born in Winfield, Illinois at Central Dupage Hospital, a medical center outside of his town. He later moved to Texas as a young man and grew up in Flower Mound, Texas, outside of Dallas where he became interested in acting as early as elementary school
He attended Edward S. Marcus High School, and was a part of theatre until he graduated in 2003. He participated in Father of the Bride his freshman year. He attended Collin County Community College for one semester with a focus on acting, but soon left his studies to pursue a professional career in that field.
Foster moved to Los Angeles, California, where he signed up for background work whenever he could, for less than $100 dollars per day. A representative from the same agency that represented Jerry Seinfeld came to Foster's acting class and signed him 6 months later.


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Presented within a beautifully inviting cover, The Curse Keepers Collection from Denise Grover Swank is a deliciously satisfying take on the wonderful urban fantasy genre.
I am beyond thankful that I received this eBook as a complete collection because I don't know what I would have done if I couldn't read these books one after the other. The first one in the collection is addictive enough but thank you to whoever made the decision to release this as a complete collection. It contains every book and novella in the series, in the order that the author intended for us to read them. The order of books in this collection are as follows:
- The Curse Keepers (Book 1)
- This Place Is Death (Novella 1)
- The Curse Breakers (Book 2)
- This Changes Everything (Novella 2)
- The Curse Defiers (Book 3)
- This Is Your Destiny (Novella 3)
I received this book as a proof copy for my kindle from '47North' the Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror imprint of Amazon Publishing via 'NetGalley.com' for an honest review. In a way I am glad this is only available in an eBook format, heaven knows what I would have done if I dropped a physical edition of this tome on my face while trying to read in bed. Ouch!
I am a huge fan of fantasy novels, and this wonderful take on the urban side of this genre is a positively gripping and thrilling read. What makes this series so wonderful other than the authors skill as a writer is the wonderful way Native American historical facts are seamlessly woven in with the fictional world that Denise creates. Sometimes I have read books where they have used factual information in completely the wrong way, so much so that you feel like you are getting a history lesson. But in these books it is done wonderfully and what the writer creates is something so absorbing while still being respectful and sensitive to the beliefs of Native Americans.
While following the journey of Ellie Lancaster, it's easy to lose yourself in her initial rejection of her role as the curse keeper and get swept away in her story. However, when Collin Dailey pops up we are left feeling infuriated by him and just how perfect he seems to be. Somehow we feel everything Ellie feels for him, good and bad, (swoon). I don't think I have every thought of the name Collin as someone who could be so charming and sexy, no not even Colin Firth folks. Sorry not my cup of tea. This has to be be the first Collin that I have found to be, shall we say 'appealing'.
Enough swooning, the whole concept of these books is thrilling. From demons, to barriers between worlds, and also the dealing with an almighty and powerful 'God'. This collection is wonderful and fantastical look at how we view heritage and ultimately what shapes us as people. I urge everyone to pick up this eBook from Amazon, it has to be one of the best series I have read in a long time. I think you should buy the collection though because you will not want to stop reading after the first book.
I did feel sad when I finished the whole thing though, I must admit I crave for more. Is it healthy to miss characters? Where for art thou Collin... ...I may need to get a life.
These books get an incredible 5/5
This book is currently available in eBook format:
If you want to find out more about the talented Denise Grover Swank Then you can head over to her official website here:
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Human Embryonic Stem Cells
to Test Medicines for Toxicity
a Democs game
to discuss an emerging field of science and medicine
and what it could mean for our lives
Democs game has been created by Edinethics Ltd
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Embryonic Stem cell-based Novel Alternative Testing Strategies
What's the Issue?
Whenever medical researchers identify a potential new drug to treat disease, it has to undergo rigorous tests to be accepted as safe enough for doctors to prescribe to patients. This includes judging their likely toxic effects, usually testing them on animals. This is ethically sensitive, expensive, and toxic effects in humans don't always show up clearly in animal tests. Human cells would often be a better alternative, but getting enough good cells to test has often been difficult.
In the ESNATS project, scientists have been creating large quantities of different cells of the human body, starting from the special cells found in the early human embryo, called human embryonic stem cells or hESCs. Their aim is to create new tests to show up any toxic effects which a potential new drug might have on the heart, liver, nervous and reproductive systems and during early embryo development.
But embryonic stem cells are controversial. Just as using animals to test drugs raises ethical questions, so does using cells which were originally derived from human embryos. In the ESNATS project we think this is justifiable, but we want to give you the opportunity to consider this for yourselves, and form your own views. You may be familiar with the debates about research into using human embryonic stem cells to treat serious degenerative diseases like Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and diabetes. But their use to replace animal testing has not been widely discussed so far. This Democs game gives you a chance to do this. The game has been written by Edinethics Ltd, an Edinburgh-based consultancy company on ethics and technology, which is one of the partners in the ESNATS project.
What is a Democs Game?
Democs is a conversation card game, a group discussion method based around cards. Players get hands of cards and take turns to play them. But instead of playing to win, they are playing to learn about an important new issue and form their opinions about it. At the end of the game, the players will get to vote on policy options. The kit is made up of several different types of cards. Most have information, ideas or stories about the topic. It was first devised in 2001 by Perry Walker of the New Economics Foundation (nef), see for example their Schools Democs games, and the game has been widely used for many different issues.
Democs is designed to be played anywhere, by anyone. All you need is a kit, about six to eight people (though you can play with more or less), a table and an hour and a half to two hours. You don't need to know anything about the topic to run a game and the rules are simple and easy to understand.
To find out more, see How does a Democs Game Work?
This Democs game has been created as part of a European Commission research project called ESNATS to explain about using stem cells as alternatives to animal testing of pharmaceutical drugs, and to ask members of the public like you what you think about the issues involved.
Have Democs games been made on other subjects? Yes! If you are interested, a lot more Democs Games have been created on different subjects from cloning to climate change, and in different languages. They are available free to download on the PlayDecide website, created for the EC research projects (DECIDE and FUND).
Human Embryonic Stem Cells to Test Medicines for Toxicity: a Democs Game
Do you want to Play the Game?
If you would like to explore these issues and have a group of friends, neighbours, family or workmates who'd like to have a go, you have two options: downloaded it or send for a hard copy by post.
Download: You can download the whole game from this website, free, and print it out for yourself. You will need to download the following 7 files. We find light white card 120 - 160 gsm weight is easier to handle than ordinary paper. Check what your printer can handle. There's quite a lot of cutting up to do. A guillotine may help.
(1 booklet)
Post : The hard copy comes in a small box, with all the cards and full instructions. And it's free, as part of the EC research project. Send us your address and we'll post it to you :
Do you want to see what's involved first?
If you want to get a better idea what this is all about, just download the Instruction Booklet pdf file, and read for yourself.
Once you've played the game : Results
There is a feed back form for you want to tell us who you are, where and when you played it, and what you thought about the game.
If we get enough games played and analysed it will give us an idea what people think about this as an issue. So we'd be very interested in the results - cluster cards, voting sheet and comments sheets. If you can send the results by post to : Donald Bruce, Edinethics Ltd.,11/6 Dundonald Street, Edinburgh EH3 6RZ.
We hope to have a feedback and results facility available on-line shortly.
Want to Play it Again? : Extra Cards
If you have played the game and want to play it again with another group of people, you can re-use the Story, Information and Issue Cards, and the Instructions, but you will need to print out 4 new Cluster Cards, 1 Voting Grid, and enough Comment Sheets (1 each per player), and a Feedback form. You can Download them here:


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In the almost lawless city of Apollo Bay, high school student Gavin Shaw takes on the role as it's sole protector. The acrobatic Midnight Tiger! Gavin wants nothing more than to release the stranglehold the criminal have on his city, but if he keeps getting in to trouble at school his dad is going to kill him before he even has the chance. Having lost all hope in the heroes of his world, fate steps in and gives young Gavin Shaw the power to do the things they have not. Only as the teenage hero Midnight Tiger does his city have a chance at redemption.
I was recommended this book by some of my fellow members in the Milestone Comics Facebook Group as well as the World of Black Superheroes Blog, so I ordered it and boy am I glad that I did!
Drawn by creator Ray-Anthony Height, who plotted it along with DeWayne Feenstra (who wrote the script), this is a really existing debut story of a new teen superhero. Midnight Tiger has acquired, through still-unexplained means, various abilities including enhanced strength, speed, senses, and stamina, along with retractable claws, which he uses with his martial arts skills to fight crime as Midnight Tiger. We see Gavin as he has to deal with fighting crime @ night while still finding time to keep up with his school work, and not aroused the suspicion of his widowed father, who despises violence. Gavin's fight against the local gang is complicated by the fact that his former best friend is now a member. And when the local gang-leader, who appears to have super-powers of his own, becomes aware of this new superhero, it looks like a major confrontation is inevitable.
Really, this books is awesome. Just the right amount of teen angst and superhero action, it reminds me of a classic Spider-Man comic. I very highly recommend this, with a rating of FIVE STARS.
Learn more about Midnight Tiger @ http://www.writeheightmedia.com/ and purchase the issue via INDYPLANET
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Though not related to the WAJO, a couple of prizes and awards are awarded at the WAJO closing presentation ceremony:
UWA, with the Western Australia Mathematical Olympiad Committee, will be hosting the WA Junior Mathematics Olympiad again in 2018, for all bright Year 8 and 9, as well as exceptional Year 7 students. The date and further details for the 2018 competition will be available soon.
The aim of the competition is to identify the most gifted students in Mathematics.
** The Bunbury campus of Edith Cowan University is our satellite venue for hosting schools in the South-West region. The competition will run concurrently with the one in Perth.
Please contact us, telephone (+61 8) 6488 3338, if your school intends to enter a team.
If you have one or two students at your school whom you would like to participate, but not enough for a full team, please let us know and we will form teams of 'allies'.
Please send a cheque of $8 per student with your nomination and names of accompanying teachers. The cheque should be made out to the WA Mathematical Olympiads Committee and should be sent to:
The WA Mathematical Olympiads Committee
The University of Western Australia
School of Mathematics and Statistics
35 Stirling Highway
Crawley, WA 6009
We have set up a WAJO participants email list. This email list is moderated to prevent spamming. It is used to notify Heads of School Mathematics Departments or others interested in or involved in the organising of school teams for the Olympiad.
Email to this list will be limited to the couple of months before the Olympiad.


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Wall Street Beat: Mobile, cloud trends spark tech mergers and acquisitions
Confidence in software-as-a-service, mobile and cloud technology is spurring tech mergers and acquisitions, despite lingering economic worries, according to market watchers.
The total value of all tech M&A deals whose values were disclosed in the first quarter worldwide was US$66.6 billion, up 83 percent year over year and the highest level in 14 years, according to the Global Technology M&A Update from EY (formerly Ernst & Young). The number of deals rose 15 percent year over year to 758 transactions globally, EA said in the report, issued this week.
On its part, PricewaterhouseCoopers noted that in the U.S., 57 deals closed in the first quarter, up 36 percent year over year, for a total value of $22.6 billion, up by 113 percent. Mobile and cloud-related deals dominated the top transactions for the quarter, PwC noted in its US Technology Deals Insights, Q1 2014 update, also published this week.
Top deals for the first quarter included: Google's $3.2 billion acquisition of Nest Labs, the maker of Internet-connected home devices; NCR's $1.7 billion purchase of Digital Insight, the online and mobile banking service provider; Oracle's $1.5 billion acquisition of marketing software provider Responsys; and VMware's deal to buy mobile device management company AirWatch for $1.5 billion.
"Software and internet deals will continue to increase," PwC predicted.
Tech vendors are trying to position themselves to take advantage of the move to mobile and cloud technology by consumers and businesses.
"I am encouraged by the near record deal volumes in the first quarter of 2014, and that transformational big-ticket deals continued," said Joe Steger, EY's head of Global Technology Industry Transaction Advisory Services, in the company's report. "Both are being driven by the still-increasing acceleration of change based on the five transformative technology megatrends of mobile, social, cloud, big data analytics and accelerated technology adaptation — and the new possibilities they foster, such as IoT [Internet of Things]."
There have been some economic clouds on the horizon, however.
While unemployment held below 7 percent in the U.S. in the first quarter, concerns still remain about the participation rate and exclusion of part-time workers, PwC pointed out.
In addition, there were some disappointments in first-quarter earnings. "Mixed results amongst recent earnings for leading technology companies put pressure on business model efficiency and competitive positioning," PwC said, adding, "Abroad, China fared better than most expected with a reported GDP growth of 7.4% for the first quarter, but the country's manufacturing sector has recently been reported to be shrinking."
Meanwhile, slow emergence from recession coupled with the crisis in Ukraine continue to raise concerns for European markets.
Just last week, IDC reported that a slowdown in the growth rate for mobile device sales and economic uncertainty in emerging markets would curb global IT spending this year. IT spending will rise 4.1 percent in constant currency this year, to US$3.7 trillion, IDC said. That's lower than last year's 4.5 percent growth and down from IDC's prior forecast of 4.6 percent growth.
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Uputronics is a UK-based manufacturer and distributor of radio and Raspberry Pi related equipment; they're big into filtered preamps, online shop offers several varieties for popular applications, such as Weather satellites, 2m band, AIS and many more. USA distributor is airspy.us, charges same price.
All preamps come in the same metal case. I've been intrigued by their range, as they have a good reputation, so contacted the company, and was talking to the designer, Anthony within minutes. He's an actual radio user, his personal website is worth a visit for high altitude baloon fanatics.
Originally, the design was for a small LNA for balloon tracking, then things got constantly improved for alternative uses.
Their 1090MHz filtered preamp for $45 is popular in the ADS-B community, and is the subject of this review. My sample had the SAW filter fitted, a version with ceramic filter for high-noise environments is also available for nearly double the cost.
Subscribe on Twitter @rtlsdr4everyone or by clicking on blue button (top left) to get the latest updates.
First impressions
Tracked delivery to Ireland from UK took 5 days, doubtlessly due to heavy Christmas postal traffic. Nice cardboard box, two layers of foam on top and bottom, metal case in plastic bag. This is not just another eBay purchase, packaging conveys the suggestion of a much more expensive product - the last time I had the same impression was when opening the $300 HackRF.
Package contains description and datasheet, part of it included here with the manufacturer's permission:
Feel, fit and finish shouts pro gear, the best I came across from any RTL-SDR related radio manufacturer. Unit is massive and heavy, if "Icom" was written on it, you'd say 200 dollars well spent.
Aluminum case with tough-looking screws, SMA female connectors with nut and washer, Mini-A USB connector for external power AND the option of bias-T. Preamp can be used with any radio device.
Remove screws, PCB slides out easily, interior of case with wall case thickness below (green is Thumbnet N3, blue is aftermarket Nooelec case):
PCB is huge and sparsely populated, components properly named:
It's good to see that Uputronics did not went down the "smaller is better route", this preamp is designed for 24/7 use, and heat dissipation is better with a larger PCB and finned case. As a result, preamp stayed constantly cool, no sign of thermal issues. All in all, an overwhelmingly positive first impression. $45 for a preamp seems a lot, but you get excellent build quality and easy power.
Two options: via coax called bias-T, which only works with a suitable dongle, like rtl-sdr.com v.3, or any other SDR with bias-T (e.g. AirSpy, RSP2, HackRF). Alternatively, via common USB Mini-A connector. No pads, no need to solder, but the option is on the PCB.
Preamp is usable with any RTL-SDR dongle, only cable and power supply e.g. smartphone charger, or any other device with 5V out required.
Two identical Raspberry Pi 3 microcomputers running PiAware in a ModMyPi Starter kit with an outdoor-mounted FlightAware antenna and splitter, coax length 5m, preamp at receiver to keep things simple.
Results reflect my location, your mileage will vary.
Unsurprisingly, with two rtl-sdr.com v.3 dongles, adding a filtered preamp resulted in significantly more position reports:
One day's polar plot, plain vs with preamp:
For the discerning ADS-B enthusiast, this preamp, preferably mounted at the antenna is a good solution.
Ubutronics's 1090 MHz filtered preamp is a great product. Build quality is excellent, power options make operation plug-n-play, and it delivers when push comes to shove.
Would I buy one? Yes, receivers constantly get improved, but a filtered preamp will always remain a filtered preamp no matter what magic comes out in September - quality never gets old.


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As a librarian, two of my greatest loves in life are reading stories and archiving information into a meaningful and easy-to-use fashion. As a Simmer, I love reading (and creating!) stories that follow Sim creations going about their lives within the various worlds of the Sims games. But it can be a bit overwhelming; there are a multitude of great sites out there dedicated to storytelling using Sims games, but it can be difficult to find them.
The Stories and Legacies Index aims to catalogue every user-submitted link focused around storytelling using any of The Sims games. It does not matter if your story is plot-driven, game-driven, a combination of both, told completely with images, told completely with text, told with a mixture of text and images, or even is a video Let's Play series or challenge, it is welcome here! Please read through the submission guidelines. You will find the submission forms following the guidelines.
- If you wish to be included in the index, then fill in the submission form listed below in the "Submission Form" section. Under "Is this a new entry or are you amending a previous entry?" select "New Entry" from the drop-down box.
- If your site is already listed with the index and you would like to change information in your listing (for example, your link has changed, or you are no longer updating your site, or you would like to add new search tags), use the submission form below and under "Is this a new entry or are you amending a previous entry?" select "Amendment" from the drop-down box.
- Only complete a form for your own website. Do not make submissions for sites of friends or other story sites in the Sims community that you simply enjoy. If you have been asked by another user to submit an entry for them, please instead direct them to this site. As a cataloger, it is important that I make sure I have the direct permission of the author to have their work included in the index.
- This index is only for sites devoted to Sims-related storytelling, whether that be in the form of screen captures with text captions, screen captures with novel-style prose, comics, fanfiction, or video-format Let's Plays and challenge series. Your story may be the written chronicles of a legacy, a challenge log, an interactive reality series or game show, or something completely original! It does not matter if your writing is plot-driven or game-driven, or a combination of both. No matter what format or style you choose to present your work, as long as you are chronicling the story of a Sim, your work is welcome here! Sites focused on Sims news, opinions, technical help, modding, building, or modeling/CAS should not be submitted to the index, unless they also contain story-specific content as well.
- Please do not submit a Sims story site that is still under construction or in development. The site must have some story material available to be submitted to the Stories and Legacies Index. Please make sure at least a prologue or single chapter is completed and available to read on the site before submitting it to the index. Please do not submit your site if you only have character bios or a plot teaser available.
- There is no minimum update requirement to list your story with the Stories and Legacies Index! Any stories that have not received an update for three consecutive months will move to the Story Archive section of the site automatically. If a story moved to the Archive receives an update at a later date, it will automatically be moved back into the main story index listing at that time.
- Please be aware that the index will be checked periodically to make sure that the links are still valid. Any invalid links will be removed without warning. Please note that any sites set to private viewing are treated as broken links and will be removed without warning.
- Any author that frequently creates new stories and then deletes the content, causing the links to go invalid, will lose their privilege to be listed with the Stories and Legacies Index.
- I am a full-time librarian when I'm not cataloging Sim stories in my free time. If you do not see your link in the index listing immediately, do not fret that something is wrong! Though I'm a busy lady, I do strive to keep things as up-to-date as possible. Please allow a few weeks for me to add your information. I typically update in the evening, Mountain Time.